Jib
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Some time in March or a bit earlier this year– I can’t remember what led me to it but I bought Pinballfx3 on Steam. I use to play a pinball game on our zx Spectrum as a kid and later played Space Cadet pinball on PC so knew I’d enjoy it, but I didn’t know how much…I very quickly decide I like pinball. We were planning to move to a bigger house in June and I decided I wanted some of that extra space for a pinball machine! A bit of googling led me to this forum where I read lots of threads and discover vpins. I had space for 1 machine at the new house and considered a real machine but having not played a pinball machine in about 25-30? years and only played a couple a few times back then, I decide why would I have 1 machine when I could have 100’s in 1 vpin?
18th April - I herniated a disc, so badly that I couldn’t move my legs and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance. I spent a lot of time playing Williams pinball app while resting in bed. This just confirms to me I definitely want to dedicate a space for a vpin in the new house.
4th May - a vpin comes up for sale on a local Facebook page. It needed updating but seemed a good price. My herniated disc had got a little better but I still couldn’t sit at all so I sent hubby to check it out and he decided it looked good enough and bought it. The timing was terrible as we hadn’t moved yet and really didn’t have space for this old Williams widebody but hubby got rid of the dining table we had decided we didn’t want at the new house and put the vpin in the dining room until the move. At this point with my back I could stand for about 20-30 minutes at a time so I spent that time playing on the vpin and my time lying down researching how to do upgrades to the cab and software. When I started to feel a bit better I managed to do some of the upgrades, some had to wait though. I also decided that playing is really fun! Plans for a spare bed in the new house get scrapped for pinball machine space and I put an order in for a NIB with Pinball Heaven.
8th July - JP2 Premium arrives in the new house! …But playing 1 is not enough and 2 weeks after our 2nd jabs we make a few trips to Tilt and Electric Circus to play more machines! I start looking at everything in terms of pinball machines. Cost of things are measured in pinball machines, I consider a new car, ‘I could get 3 pinball machines for that, are you crazy!’ Space is measured in pinball machines, doing our daily walk I look at double garages and outbuildings and I say ‘how many pinball machines do you think you can fit in there?’ I wander round our house visually measuring spaces for pinball machines ‘why do we have a separate shower and bath when we don’t have baths, we could fit a pinball machine there!’ Oh dear god help me the obsession has truly taken hold
20th August - I put a deposit down for another NIB. That’s it, no more space for any more pins when this arrives! Any more will have to be on a one in, one out basis I say.
24th August - TMNT pops up on the forum. Hubby hasn’t shown much interest in pinball past (luckily for me) encouraging my new hobby, but we played this at Electric Circus and he said ‘I’d play that’. I’d love if he got into pinball too, soooo… offer made.
I should have listened when people said you’ll never be done with just 1, they breed. I didn’t expect them to breed quite this quickly!
I have space for 3 machines, now I’m going to have 4. I’m off to try and work out where to put the extra machine!
18th April - I herniated a disc, so badly that I couldn’t move my legs and had to be taken to hospital by ambulance. I spent a lot of time playing Williams pinball app while resting in bed. This just confirms to me I definitely want to dedicate a space for a vpin in the new house.
4th May - a vpin comes up for sale on a local Facebook page. It needed updating but seemed a good price. My herniated disc had got a little better but I still couldn’t sit at all so I sent hubby to check it out and he decided it looked good enough and bought it. The timing was terrible as we hadn’t moved yet and really didn’t have space for this old Williams widebody but hubby got rid of the dining table we had decided we didn’t want at the new house and put the vpin in the dining room until the move. At this point with my back I could stand for about 20-30 minutes at a time so I spent that time playing on the vpin and my time lying down researching how to do upgrades to the cab and software. When I started to feel a bit better I managed to do some of the upgrades, some had to wait though. I also decided that playing is really fun! Plans for a spare bed in the new house get scrapped for pinball machine space and I put an order in for a NIB with Pinball Heaven.
8th July - JP2 Premium arrives in the new house! …But playing 1 is not enough and 2 weeks after our 2nd jabs we make a few trips to Tilt and Electric Circus to play more machines! I start looking at everything in terms of pinball machines. Cost of things are measured in pinball machines, I consider a new car, ‘I could get 3 pinball machines for that, are you crazy!’ Space is measured in pinball machines, doing our daily walk I look at double garages and outbuildings and I say ‘how many pinball machines do you think you can fit in there?’ I wander round our house visually measuring spaces for pinball machines ‘why do we have a separate shower and bath when we don’t have baths, we could fit a pinball machine there!’ Oh dear god help me the obsession has truly taken hold
20th August - I put a deposit down for another NIB. That’s it, no more space for any more pins when this arrives! Any more will have to be on a one in, one out basis I say.
24th August - TMNT pops up on the forum. Hubby hasn’t shown much interest in pinball past (luckily for me) encouraging my new hobby, but we played this at Electric Circus and he said ‘I’d play that’. I’d love if he got into pinball too, soooo… offer made.
I should have listened when people said you’ll never be done with just 1, they breed. I didn’t expect them to breed quite this quickly!
I have space for 3 machines, now I’m going to have 4. I’m off to try and work out where to put the extra machine!
